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Not long before any creative is deemed to be a traitor undermining the power of AI or something.
'Pre-theft' I don't know.
'Pre-theft' I don't know.
Fuck Israel
My phone came with a free year of Google AI so I started messing with it. Image gen has been an amusing game of spot the flaws. Still much better than last time I tried it.
actually on-topic, ai "gun detection" vs doritos and a clarinet.
Student handcuffed after Doritos bag mistaken for a gun by school's AI security system
https://abc7.com/post/student-handcuffe … /18073796/
Student holding instrument like a gun prompts automated system to issue Code Red at Oviedo school
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local … do-school/
as if kids didn't get to worry enough about being shot as it is.
i don't get why ai is trusted with something like this with lives at stake when it's still very clearly in its infancy of reliability.
fw: health insurance claims ai
we are a literally few iterations from The Boardroom Incident:
complete with a techbro calling it a temporary setback.
Student handcuffed after Doritos bag mistaken for a gun by school's AI security system
https://abc7.com/post/student-handcuffe … /18073796/
Student holding instrument like a gun prompts automated system to issue Code Red at Oviedo school
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local … do-school/
as if kids didn't get to worry enough about being shot as it is.
i don't get why ai is trusted with something like this with lives at stake when it's still very clearly in its infancy of reliability.
fw: health insurance claims ai
we are a literally few iterations from The Boardroom Incident:
complete with a techbro calling it a temporary setback.
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ironically, considering the 'us' of this thread title, that being a collection of quondam gamer-geeks ... this is pretty much becoming 100% true.
micron announced they are leaving the consumer RAM market earlier this month.
today it has been confirmed that samsung are quitting the consumer SSD market in 2026.
coupled with the post-crypto/AI goldrush for GPUs, we are effectively seeing the extinction of the 'desktop PC' in real time, especially the 'self-build gamer tower' concept.
there's even rumours that off-the-shelf tech like laptops will be reverting to 8Gb RAM base models, commencing next year, just because of the pinch on RAM as all the companies pivot to milking the AI thing for everything it's worth.
someone ran some figures on twitter, and a self-built gaming PC in early 2025 now would cost ~$1200 more for the exact same parts. and that's presuming you can even find them in store. people are panic-buying storage and RAM as we speak.
and all this so that giant companies can develop total surveillance systems/states, while mongs get to distract themselves with the jangling keys of generating some of the ugliest videos/images you've ever seen in your life. neat!
micron announced they are leaving the consumer RAM market earlier this month.
today it has been confirmed that samsung are quitting the consumer SSD market in 2026.
coupled with the post-crypto/AI goldrush for GPUs, we are effectively seeing the extinction of the 'desktop PC' in real time, especially the 'self-build gamer tower' concept.
there's even rumours that off-the-shelf tech like laptops will be reverting to 8Gb RAM base models, commencing next year, just because of the pinch on RAM as all the companies pivot to milking the AI thing for everything it's worth.
someone ran some figures on twitter, and a self-built gaming PC in early 2025 now would cost ~$1200 more for the exact same parts. and that's presuming you can even find them in store. people are panic-buying storage and RAM as we speak.
and all this so that giant companies can develop total surveillance systems/states, while mongs get to distract themselves with the jangling keys of generating some of the ugliest videos/images you've ever seen in your life. neat!
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Some of the AI porn is, um, remarkable
Also we need to drain the aquifers to cool the GPU farms.
I'm fine with that, I mean, who needs stupid aquifers?
Also we need to drain the aquifers to cool the GPU farms.
I'm fine with that, I mean, who needs stupid aquifers?
Fuck Israel
fwiw i think some of the calculations about data center water use were a bit off ... like orders of magnitude off. but, yes, generally it is crazy that we are hiking electricity/water/utilities rates for small townships to build giant UFO structures on their outskirts, with no perceivable benefit to anybody.
i brought up micron and samsung in the fwp thread with the frustration that it's all converging now of all times. i'm not even going to blame myself for sitting on relatively low prices in the past while my own machine is running on pixie farts. this is on them. if you wanted me to buy before, maybe stop teasing that thing that's like twice as good coming out in four months!
e: already having planned on not migrating from gtx 2k until it was absolutely necessary, anyway.
imagine dropping to 8gb for a windows pc in 2025/6. we're going backwards to a time where you had to optimize config.sys for the express purpose of running doom.
e2: what exactly do gamur geeks really have to look forward to anyway? slopware?
e: already having planned on not migrating from gtx 2k until it was absolutely necessary, anyway.
imagine dropping to 8gb for a windows pc in 2025/6. we're going backwards to a time where you had to optimize config.sys for the express purpose of running doom.
e2: what exactly do gamur geeks really have to look forward to anyway? slopware?
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pc gaming is basically dead. between the death of AAA gaming and hollowing out of expertise at the major studios, and now the consumer market being abandoned in favour of b2b and the AI industry ...
there's still gta6 but yeah i agree. even indies are feeling it with credit card companies pressuring sites like itch.io because some right wing advocacy has its panties in a twist. it'll be interesting watching valve in all this.
while i don't think it was worth trading all this consumer market just to boost surveillance state fetishists and ai gooners, i'm not sure whether gaming itself is really a thing to be mourned much (outside of sympathies for developers who lost their jobs). crass, badly cultured, outwardly horrible people and their bad ideas in greater numbers than just a few bad apples.
before ai started figuring heavily into all this, expertise and solid dev teams and creatives have been being binned and screwed (mick gordon!!) by corporate suits for such reasons as celebrating ends of successful years and releases with layoffs. straight up admitting now that they can't make games like they used to because the data and expertise is all gone? lmao, fund a team of modders to reverse-engineer your own legacy software and the tech side will be done in like a month. it still blows me away what people have done with DOOM of all things.
while i don't think it was worth trading all this consumer market just to boost surveillance state fetishists and ai gooners, i'm not sure whether gaming itself is really a thing to be mourned much (outside of sympathies for developers who lost their jobs). crass, badly cultured, outwardly horrible people and their bad ideas in greater numbers than just a few bad apples.
before ai started figuring heavily into all this, expertise and solid dev teams and creatives have been being binned and screwed (mick gordon!!) by corporate suits for such reasons as celebrating ends of successful years and releases with layoffs. straight up admitting now that they can't make games like they used to because the data and expertise is all gone? lmao, fund a team of modders to reverse-engineer your own legacy software and the tech side will be done in like a month. it still blows me away what people have done with DOOM of all things.
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I still haven't watched the 2nd GTA 6 trailer. Conceptionally it just doesn't interest me.
Perhaps I never got over that millennial 2012 Social Justice Warrior phase.
But killing innocent people and causing destruction is the type of things I am trying to teach the blaaaaaaaack kids not to do.
Perhaps I never got over that millennial 2012 Social Justice Warrior phase.
But killing innocent people and causing destruction is the type of things I am trying to teach the blaaaaaaaack kids not to do.
how thompson-esque.
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Jack Thompson?
What a throwback! I want to write a book titled "Picking the Right Hill to Die on." Freedom of expression in video games...you are too smart of that. Pick a better hill.
What a throwback! I want to write a book titled "Picking the Right Hill to Die on." Freedom of expression in video games...you are too smart of that. Pick a better hill.
i spent a lot of gta5 just marveling at stuff like puddles when it rains. vwd execution. i don't really know what gta6 is about. hopefully it doesn't show up on one of those THEN/NOW shame compilations where a 20 year old game completely trounces the "successor" that came out two minutes ago in almost every category.
remember this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/video-ga … le-fantasy
people made fun of it with innocuous videos of harmless activities that happen to take place in video games. as if petting a dog means that gaming's less-noble activities don't stink. and gaming has some of the biggest toxos i've ever met online, who spend time leveling up their repellent personalities in the company of other toxos. i wouldn't want "gamer" in my rl profile of how people see me.
#notall. small enclaves of nomad gamers who travel from title to title and bail when a community tanks. others hole up on the same server for decades and calcify, but are outwardly nice people.
while jack was on his crusade, i wonder how many people were human-trafficked to be diddled by rich men who never played a second of doom.
remember this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/video-ga … le-fantasy
people made fun of it with innocuous videos of harmless activities that happen to take place in video games. as if petting a dog means that gaming's less-noble activities don't stink. and gaming has some of the biggest toxos i've ever met online, who spend time leveling up their repellent personalities in the company of other toxos. i wouldn't want "gamer" in my rl profile of how people see me.
#notall. small enclaves of nomad gamers who travel from title to title and bail when a community tanks. others hole up on the same server for decades and calcify, but are outwardly nice people.
while jack was on his crusade, i wonder how many people were human-trafficked to be diddled by rich men who never played a second of doom.
nobody is going to be able to play a future GTA 6 on PC. it's over, you just don't even realise it yet.
nvidia announced 40% reduction in their gaming production next year.
DDR5 RAM is now up to like $1000 for a gaming-tier build.
we are in this bubble for at least the next 2–3 years.
ironically, it was gamers who leveraged these gigantic companies into positions of prominence, goober nerds who boosted generative AI and thought all the new baubles were "", and now they're all being made into landless serfs who will soon be using devices with cloud-only OSs and AI integrated into everything.
eat your slop!
nvidia announced 40% reduction in their gaming production next year.
DDR5 RAM is now up to like $1000 for a gaming-tier build.
we are in this bubble for at least the next 2–3 years.
ironically, it was gamers who leveraged these gigantic companies into positions of prominence, goober nerds who boosted generative AI and thought all the new baubles were "", and now they're all being made into landless serfs who will soon be using devices with cloud-only OSs and AI integrated into everything.
eat your slop!
unlikely considering most of the studios laid off their best staff in recent years and 40% of all new code written by big tech is auto-generative slop.
acutely aware. oh well, guess i won't be installing windows 11.uziq wrote:
it's over, you just don't even realise it yet.
i can still run games without even meeting minimum requirements, and i imagine pretty much everyone on steam has a backlog of unplayed sales items to keep them busy during the famine. my regret isn't being unable to run gta6 on maximum (or at all); it's the dread that this machine will finally blow a component that sends me to ebay to navigate the vintage scalpers for a replacement.
speaking of slop taking over:
With New Mozilla CEO, Firefox Will Become a "Modern AI Browser"
https://www.techpowerup.com/344173/with … ai-browser
moment of silence for the final nail in that coffin.
i ran it through chatgpt to detect ai influence:
With New Mozilla CEO, Firefox Will Become a "Modern AI Browser"
https://www.techpowerup.com/344173/with … ai-browser
moment of silence for the final nail in that coffin.
i ran it through chatgpt to detect ai influence:
lmaoBelow is a **qualitative assessment**, not a definitive judgment. There is no reliable way to prove whether AI was used based on text alone, but we *can* analyze stylistic and structural signals that correlate with AI-assisted writing.
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## Overall likelihood of AI influence: **Moderate**
The passage shows several characteristics commonly found in AI-assisted or AI-edited strategic writing, but it also contains elements that are consistent with human-authored executive communications.
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## Signals that suggest **possible AI influence**
### 1. **Highly structured, balanced rhetoric**
* The “**First / Second / Third**” triad is very clean and evenly developed.
* Each section follows a similar cadence and length.
* AI systems frequently produce well-balanced enumerations like this, especially in strategy or vision statements.
### 2. **Abstract, generalized language**
Phrases such as:
* “trusted software company”
* “puts the user first”
* “transparent monetization”
* “global reach”
* “portfolio of new and trusted software additions”
These are high-level, non-specific concepts that sound polished but avoid concrete operational detail. AI models often default to this level of abstraction unless prompted otherwise.
### 3. **Neutral, consensus-oriented tone**
* No strong emotional peaks.
* No surprising turns of phrase.
* No personal voice, anecdotes, or sharp opinions.
This “safe executive voice” is a common outcome of AI-assisted drafting, especially for mission or strategy documents.
### 4. **Repetition with variation**
* Reiterating “trust,” “choice,” “people,” and “agency” in slightly different forms.
* AI commonly reinforces key themes this way to ensure coherence.
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## Signals that suggest **human authorship or strong human editing**
### 1. **Clear organizational and brand alignment**
* Deeply aligned with Mozilla’s long-standing public values (privacy, user agency, independence).
* The framing feels informed by institutional context, not generic tech branding alone.
### 2. **Subtle rhetorical emphasis**
* Lines like *“This is not a slogan. It is a direction…”* feel intentionally placed for emphasis.
* That kind of rhetorical pause is more typical of human writers, or at least human revision.
### 3. **No obvious AI artifacts**
* No awkward phrasing, hallucinated claims, or unnatural transitions.
* Sentence flow is clean and intentional, suggesting careful review.
---
## Most likely scenario
**Human-authored with AI assistance or AI-polished**, rather than fully AI-generated.
Common possibilities:
* A human drafted the core ideas and used AI to refine clarity and structure.
* AI produced an early draft that was then edited by a human familiar with Mozilla’s voice.
* AI was used for stylistic smoothing rather than content generation.
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## If you want a stronger human signal
If the goal is to *reduce the appearance* of AI influence, adding:
* Specific examples (real products, decisions, or tradeoffs)
* Slight asymmetry in paragraph length or structure
* A more distinctive or opinionated sentence or two
would make the text feel more unmistakably human.
If you want, I can:
* Rewrite it to sound **more human**
* Rewrite it to sound **more deliberately AI-neutral**
* Or annotate specific sentences with likelihood scores
sounds pretty ai to me lolThis is not a slogan. It is a direction
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AI slop was an answer on todays NYT mini crossword.
Yea I've seen plenty of vibe coded things that do not do what they claim. I don't have much faith in the future.
Yea I've seen plenty of vibe coded things that do not do what they claim. I don't have much faith in the future.
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Newbie, AI has totally affected every professional or important text. Unless the stuff is sensitive there is no reason why you shouldn't pop it into ChatGPT before it goes out.
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The technology is solid but the market hasn't figured out what is or should be viable. You don't need AI in a toaster. Google, Amazon, and other services integrating AI into search or email writing is actually useful.
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They raised the price of Office 365 to $99.99 from $69.99. I need to remember turn off the auto renew on that.
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The technology is solid but the market hasn't figured out what is or should be viable. You don't need AI in a toaster. Google, Amazon, and other services integrating AI into search or email writing is actually useful.
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They raised the price of Office 365 to $99.99 from $69.99. I need to remember turn off the auto renew on that.
i know. i care less if someone uses it to make a throwaway outline for work or do a search to avoid google's useless results. and it's certainly no business of mine if they have a robot girlfriend. but transparency is important. this stuff is pernicious and annoying and infesting media and art space and work and politics and so on, and people should have the option to not engage if they don't want to. when they start charging us for Trump-brand unpolluted oxygen cannisters (that may or may not be laced with hypno-gas and other pollutants) because a coal power renaissance turned the planet into an unlivable hellhole, you'll know i'm right. the best projected outcome is probably a wall-e future.
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The copyright and energy issues are separate from whether or not these things have practical uses. This isn't someone stacking a warehouse with GPUs to mine Bitcoin. These LLMs have genuine utility outside of getting those stock numbers up
it is a gigantic financial bubble, the tiniest core of which contains a genuinely useful new technology that will affect everyone's lives in an incremental, rather than revolutionary, way.
AGI is still sci-fi.
AGI is still sci-fi.
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I haven't looked into any of this AGI stuff and am not interested in it's development. I am at the "who gives a shit" stage of tech enthusiasm.
The only thing I am interested in is a self driving car. I want to be able to take a nap while the car gets me to one of my Asian 5s place.
The only thing I am interested in is a self driving car. I want to be able to take a nap while the car gets me to one of my Asian 5s place.